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Web Searching

The project for this week goes along with the Image of the Week....Web Searching. You will search the web for sites that you can use in your WebQuest. Save all the sites that you think might be useful to your project as links in a resource page. The resource page is a web page that will be part of your project. You will continue to add to the resource page over the next few weeks.

You will need to select a topic or area from your curriculum that you feel will lend itself to a PBL WebQuest. Then search for web sites that might be related to your curriculum topic or area. As you find web sites that might possibly be used in your WebQuest, add them as links on your resource page.

Web Page Topics

Explore how to use links, anchors, and tables in web pages. Include links and anchors in the teacher resource page and organize the layout using a table. To use a table in your page layouts, set the border to zero, then the table grid will not be drawn. If you need help with using links, anchors, and tables, look at these web sites

• Colorado College Claris Home Page Introduction
  An HTML reference site with additional ideas about links, anchors, and tables.
  • Creating Links to Other Web Pages
  • Inserting Tables

• Tutorial / Reference for Claris Home Page
  A Claris Home Page tutorial from the Twist project at the University of Iowa.
  • Creating Links and Anchors
  • Adding Tables to Your Web Page

• Introduction to Web Page Design
  An HTML reference site with additional ideas about links, anchors, and tables.
  • All About Links
  • Internal Links
  • Basic Tables
  • Table in a Table

Upload Resource Page

Upload your resource page to the same folder you used for your first web page. You can give your resource page any file name your wish, but the file name extension should be html, something like resources.html would work fine. Go back to the week where we created our first web page if you need a review on how upload your resource page.

As part of the next few assignments you will continue to add to your resource page and replace it. You are not supposed to be "finished" with the page. Again, the resource page will be part of your final project and will not be "finished" until your final project is submitted.

Be sure to test your resource page after it is posted on the server. The address of your template will have this format:

http://ois.unomaha.edu/amfarm/student/yourfoldername/yourfilename.html

You will need to decide on the actual folder name and file name that you will use. When you are satisfied that your resource page is working properly, post the URL to your resource page in the class discussion area.

WebQuest Problem

The WebQuest "problem" that you pose to your students is extremely important! We will work on the actual problem in a future assignment. You may wish to think about your problem statement some this week as you look at WebQuest samples. You also may wish to keep a list of ideas, content, objectives, etc. for your project. These things may change as you develop your project, but try to keep notes in a web page or a word processing document of the ideas you have as you search the web and read about WebQuests.

WebQuest Introduction

To get a good understanding of WebQuests you will want to explore the WebQuest web site at San Diego State University. Follow the links on the page Readings and Training Materials at that same site for a great introduction to WebQuests. Bernie Dodge developed the WebQuest concept at San Diego State. This site is a great resource for all aspects of WebQuests. It contains everything from ideas, to specific components, to developing assessments.

WebQuest Samples

Below is a list of sample WebQuests that are related to agriculture. These will allow you to look at how other people have done WebQuests. Use our Final Project Evaluation Rubric to evaluate one of these WebQuests. The Final Project Evaluation Rubric is located under the Course Information button. Post your evaluation in the discussion area.

• fARMqUEST (Primary)
• Life on a Plymouth Plantation (Primary)
• Celebrating the Harvest (Primary/Upper Elementary)
• Life in Rural America in the 1800's and Teachers Page (Upper/Middle School)
• Desertification (Middle School)
• Agriculture in Franklin Parish, LA (Middle/High School)
• Hello Dolly (Middle/High School)
• DNA for Dinner? (Middle/High School)

Here are some other WebQuest sites that may be of use to you. Have fun looking through them.

• A WebQuest About Building WebQuests by Patti Albaugh, Ph.D., Otterbein College
• WebQuest Links by Douglas Zauha, ESU 3 in Nebraska
• WebQuest List from Louisiana State University

You may wish to do your own web search for additional WebQuest sites.

Assignment Summary

1. Select a topic area from your curriculum that you will use for your WebQuest. At this point the topic area may be fairly broad.
2. Search the Web and begin to collect links to pages that you think might be useful to your selected topic area.
3. Create a Web page to hold your collected links. This will become your teacher resource page in future lessons. Use links, anchors, and tables to organize your resource page.
4. Upload your resource page to the same folder you used for your first web page.
5. Keep Problem Based Learning in mind as you think about your WebQuest. What problem statement might frame the entire WebQuest for your students?
6. Read over the WebQuest introduction and at least one of the sample WebQuests. Use the Final Project Evaluation Rubric to evaluate one sample WebQuest. Post your evaluation in the class discussion area.